In the second circular of the presidential election, Rafał Trzaskowski will face Karol Nawrocki. It will be a fierce duel due to the fact that both gentlemen according to the exit poll share a minimum difference of vote. Can young voters supply them with victory? Those in the first circular reluctantly pointed to them, which is not amazing to me.
The consequence of the presidential election according to young voters. They chose Mentzen and Zandberg
Just before the election silence in Temat I wrote that the Polish political scene is besides black and white for the youngest voters who see many shades of grey The biggest disappointment was KO and PiS, as can be seen in the results of the vote.
Among the voters aged 18-29, Rafał Trzaskowski finished 3rd with the consequence of 12.2% of voters. Karol Nawrocki was the fourth, enjoying the support of only 10.5 percent of the voters.
So who won? Slawomir Mentzen was a strong favorite, for which as many as 36.1 percent of young voters voted according to the exit poll. The second place was taken by Adrian Zandberg with a score of 19.7 percent.
Is that a surprise? Yes and no. On the 1 hand, we went into extremist extremes. He won a highly polarized candidate for the far right. Second place came to the leader of the Left.
However, both candidates were able to talk to young people from the beginning. Speaking of the request to simplify taxes (Mentzen), but besides about abortion, partnerships and the end of garbage trucks (Zandberg). On the another hand, surprise may be the low score of Joanna Senyszyn, who was the star of TikTok, or Krzysztof Stanowski, known primarily by Channel Zero.
Trzaskowski and Nawrocki must convince the young. These require them to change rhetoric
Even the support that Mr Hołownia gave Mr Trzaskowski may not be adequate to win the elections on 1 June. In the PO, they know that young voters they have lost can be important. But there is hope for them. After all, Trzaskowski is behind Campus Polska.
– We lost youth. And PiS, and we – said late in a conversation with the PO representative. It's the kids who come to Mentzen's. I remember 5 years ago, erstwhile we were collecting signatures for Rafal Trzaskowski, advanced school students came up, raised their thumbs up. Now they can say bad words – he added.
It will be harder to convince the young to themselves. No 1 has any thought how to attract them. It utilized to be easier to engage or encourage individual to attend a meeting. Now everyone has net and sits on the phone. And the young man will say, "Why should I go? I have everything on my phone" and it won't leave the house," PiS politician told us.
Additionally, young people do not seem to be utmost right-wingers, although patriotic ideas are very close to many of them. Mentzen attracted them through TikTok and communication on social media. For Nawrocki and PiS, it's black magic.
In the erstwhile presidential elections, according to an exit poll, 23.8% of young voters voted for Rafał Trzaskowski. 23.3 percent chose Krzysztof Bosak from the Confederation and 22.3 percent Simon Hołownia from Poland 2025.
It is worth noting that in 2015 Bronisław Komorowski won more support among young than now Trzaskowski according to an exit poll. At the time, 13.8 percent of voters aged 18-29 voted for erstwhile president. Paul Kukiz then gained the top support – 41.1 young people chose him.
